On June 30, 2021, during a Fulton County Board of Commissioners meeting with the county’s mayors at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, County Manager Dick Anderson said Fulton’s court case backlog had gotten out of control.

“Fundamentally, there’s about 200,000 cases [estimated] in the backlog, [and] 1,000 folks [are] in the Fulton County Jail unindicted as a consequence of this,” he said then. “It will take about 30 to 34 months to work this backlog down, and that assumes over 300 additional [Fulton employees] will be hired, from judges to assistant district attorneys to public defenders to other court personnel.”